Fire-hose coupling.



H. w. Si-SSON. FIRE HosE couPLlNG. APPLICATION FILED'APR; I. 191.4.

LSGJ Pafenfedsepn 1 4, 1915..

i Ueli? o wie@ Application med april i, 19111. serial No. 32eme,

To ZZ 07m/iz it may concern.'

Be 1t known. that l, HENRY lW. Sissox, citizen of the United Statesgresiding at Lake George., in the county of larren and State. of Bew'ork, have, invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-HoseCouplings, of which the following is a specirelatively small eoupliiifsponding parte: Figure fication, reference being had to the accom--panying drawings.

v This invention relates to liose 'or con` Keying water and morepartioularlvi* to a eoiiiiliiig adapted to loe applied to connect thetwo sections of a fire hose The primaryI volojeot of my invention theprovision oir1 a coupling haring a relatirel)v large diameter andadapted to ooimeot two sections ot' lire liose together which couplingis: provided with means for Connecting it to whereby va relatively`email hose may loe Connected to the main hose. 'B Y tliie arrangementit is possible to talie'froni the main i relatively Small stream whichmay be used for putting out. lires in situations where a stream would doa great deal oi' daiaae.

A .further object o1 the iure-litio@ is t prorieioii of a Connectionwith a Coupling; for relatireljylarg-e sections of ii of couplingbraiieliii "i smallV diameter r .e to tirL i this coupling adapted to bed nested to the iriaii coupling; and lo# vided 'with avalve villersWateitlirougii the auxil controlied.'

@ther objects will aiiiipear in the Course. of tl'ie followingdescription.

Further and more specific detail@ of' Coilstruction Will hereinafter befully "pointed out and claimed o like :Le corr-"- le elevation of a.fire hose coupler emboli; iin-- proveniente o my invention? partebeing' broken out, and Fig. 2 is a transverse seotional View on the lineQ--,o Fig. L

The main coupling l is provided at eooli end with threads to be engagedby tlio ordi,- nary coupling rings Carried by die end of a re hose. itiS designed that this coupling shall loe attached to tlie' ireliose at apoint fifty lfeet or 5o back of the om 5o that the use of an extra longauxil be eliminated. Adjacent- .vo oir part of this Specification, and icharacters oi 'reference desi' Specification of'ietters ateiit. l

ltlirezudefd nipple lidiar from injury when the lire hose bem?thoroughly practical value in use, inasmuch, 'as the damage that ollowsfrom the use of hose 'will d off 'the Paiteiitei Coupling is oriiied MH.,fit/qll( il communicating with 'tli'e inter coupling and disposed :itan ari to the longitudinal axis of the coupliiig,j a this nipple. isengaged by the threaded e of an auxiliar)7 eoupling l, the other endwhich is provided with the. Stiel tlireafl' to be engaged by thecoupling relatively Small auxiliary lioee, mediato portion of lieooiiifiiizit vided with o valve Wliieli iviil nor off passage of Watertlieretli'ro valve is provided with a square be engaged by like-slra'ped shank y Valve lie-the latter being; provided with Circularhead 8 by which it mar be toriied to operi the Valve, and Connected'with coupler by a eliaiii 9. o

- In order to protect the aux' fw a diagged ove the ground, the eoupliaeprorided adjacent" to the eo'iiplin,

lateral extension l0 ooi'istitutiiigij zr a shield which will be of agrmrierse Widtlz,

somewhat greater than that oit the, eoupliiigz el, and which will havelateral projo i sueieiitito protectt-l'ie threaded end nirjs'conditioiis` the faire is closed` out eliould it me r latter for t-lipurpose. of o ieliiiig a, si'iiali lire, a relatisY` j small au: rifhose suoii as a garden liose is attaelied to the threaded endthereof'aiid tli shank I of the key iiisorted in the socket 6 of thevalve. and' the latter turned, 'thereby permitting of they Water to tliebranch or Supplemental hose.

Thilo the .improvement liereiii simple in character, it will be d Luse,ie

detained is; oimel oi mall oost eouf' n'eCted-f to 'said nipple; and avalve disposed in 'the auxiliary coupling controlling the pas'sage' ofWater therethrough, the main body vportion of the coupling having a lat1 eral enlargement adjacent to the auxiliary couplingand toward whichthe auxiliary coupling and nipple extend, said enlargeinjury when thecoupling is dragged over the ground in thev direction toward which the'auxiliary coupling and nipple extend.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my slgnature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

HENRY XV. SISSON.

Vitnesses ARTHUR F. VEsi-, R. .CUTLER BRADLEY.

